Painter Vera Iliatova will present a Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture on Thursday, March 27 at 5:30 p.m. at Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students. The series is presented in collaboration with Sheldon Museum of Art.

Iliatova’s work employs metaphors of landscape and interior spaces and female figures that meld together in oddly disconnected perspectives. Her psychologically charged images often depict women at various stages of life at instances of impending melodramas either with each other or themselves, which can create an atmosphere of uncertainty in the painterly mise-en-scène they are populating.

liatova grew up in Leningrad (former Soviet Union) and immigrated to the United States when she was 15. She received a BA from Brandeis University and an MFA in painting/printmaking from Yale University, with further study at the Skowhegan School of Art (2004) and a residency at Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation (2007/2008). In 2018, Iliatova was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting (2018) and Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Grant (2023).

Iliatova’s work has been shown across the U.S., as well in Italy, Spain, Germany, Denmark and Great Britain. Currently, her paintings are presented in a two-person exhibition with Judith Linhares, curated by Dona Nelson at Fahrenheit Madrid, Spain. Iliatova’s work was included in group exhibitions at the Warehouse Dallas (2022), Fahrenheit Madrid (2021), Katonah Museum (2018) and at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco (2017). Her work was reviewed in Art Forum, Art in America, Art News, The New York Times, The Houston Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Time Out New York, and other publications.

View her work at https://vera-iliatova.com.